When Silence was 11, her father bought 100 acres of land in Lanesborough. He sold the land in 1783.

Residence

1787

Samuel Martin's Land, Rensselaerville, Albany, New York, USA

Samuel and Silence, their brother-in-law Samuel Baker and Josiah Skinner (unrelated) leased lot 147 (164 acres) in the Town of Rensselaerville from Stephen van Rensselaer III, the Patroon of Rensselaerwyck. The pin on the map (below) is the estimated position of the southern boundary of lot 147. Silence's brothers Rowland and Levi Greene, leased lot 166, the adjacent lot to the north.

Died

29 May 1811

Blenheim, Oxford, Ontario, Canada

Buried

Princeton Cemetery, Princeton, Oxford, Ontario, Canada

Notes

According to the History of Levi Greene (p. 5) Silence married _____ Martin.

Mary Shaw Greene wrote that Silence was a widow from Scituate, Massachusetts without evidence. Arnold's entry for the marriage reads [Greene] "Timothy, of W. Greenwich, and Silence Burlingame, widow, of Scituate; m. at Coventry by Elder James Colvin, Sept, 22 1751". The fact that Scituate is not specifically said to be in Massachusetts, suggests that Silence was from Scituate, Providence County, Rhode Island, as other states are commonly named in these records. [6, 7]

Notes

A record of the births in the Greene family is given in the following, which is a transcription of a copy of a note written by Sarah Mallory Baker, who had copied the original record. In her note Sarah Baker states explicitly that Huldah was the daughter of Elder Timothy Greene. Sarah personally knew Huldah. Mrs. Percy Barker copied Sarah's note and sent it to Maud Martin Latham via Eva Sowden in 1956. My comments in [ ]. Sarah's note said:

"Elder Timothy Green & Silence Rowland marriage September y 21 day 1751 old stile, also their death old stile
Timothy Green born June y 14 day 1725 week 2 day between 12 & 1 in the afternoon Silence Green born July ye 17 Day 1729 week y 5 Day old stile [i.e. Silence Rowland Burlingame]

[Burlingame written in the margin and tied to Roulen, who was apparently her son by her first marriage.]

Roulen her first born March y 1 Day 1749 week 4 day between 9 & 10 at night - 3

Peleg Green born ye April 15 Day 1752 week ye 4 day between 6 & 7 in the afternoon

Enfield born May ye 15 Day 1754 weeks & Days half after 3 Monde morning

Huldah born ye December 20 Day 1757 3 week 2 days 9 at night

Levi born ye 6 d 1759 week 3 days between 2 & 3 in the afternoon - 3

Mary born May ye 5 Day 1760 week y 2 day 3 in the morning
[she was called Molly written in the left margin]

Silence born April 14th day 1762 ye 4 Day ye 9 at night

Rowland born April 2 Day 1766 week 7 day half After 10 in the morning

Elderlatte [Elizabeth] the first-born May ye 9 Day 1768 week 1 Day Dyed September 5 1769

Elisabath the second born March ye 25 1771 - weeks the 4 Day 4 in the morning.

This is a true copy from an old record as exact as I could possibly make it - I have endeavored to preserve the quaint old manner of the orthography of a hundred and twenty years ago.

For Thomas Horner and the posterity of my Dear Mother-in-law Mrs Huldah Baker. who was daughter of Elder Timothy Green and Grandmother to the children of Mrs Olive Horner of Burford, W.C.

Aunt Sarah Baker
Batavia, April 14, 1853"

[The "-3" at the end of some lines may have been flourishes and may have no meaning.]

Samuel and Silence very likely were married in Lanesborough or a nearby town, although no record has been located yet. Silence's family moved to Lanesborough in 1773 when she was 11, her sister Huldah was married in Lanesborough in 1782, and Silence's son Silas was born in Massachusetts in 1783.

Historical Marker at the Baptist Church of Preston HollowFour members of the Green family and their spouses were almost certainly founding members of this church in 1787 (Silence Green and Samuel Martin, Huldah Green and Samuel Baker, Levi Green and Asenath Robinson, and Rowland Green and Elizabeth Champlain). Elder Timothy Green, their father, was the first pastor of the church (abt 1790).

Headstones

Martin, Samuel and Silence GreeneThe memorial was a stone box. The inscriptions were on the top (which was cracked) and were badly eroded and sometimes illegible. In addition to Samuel and Silence, the monument also memorialized their son Solomon, who died as a boy, and also their son Elial and his wife Mary and several of their sons.
Inscriptions: [illegible] the remains of / SAMUEL MARTIN / who died Aug 28[?], 1832 aged 73 yrs / SILENCE / his wife died May 29, 1811 48[?] yrs / sons of Elial and Mary Martin / SUMMERS/ died Mar[?] 3 1812[?] / ANDREW / died Oct[?] 17 1812 / ISAAC / died Dec 1 1816 AE 11 yrs / JACOB / died April 16 1851 AE 22 yrs / SOLOMON / died Feb 15 1809 AE 11 yrs / ELIAL MARTIN died Apr[?]1873 / Aged 81[?] yrs | MARY / wife of ELIAL MARTIN / died M[?] 1812 / aged 29 yrs